tachikoma

should the character.ai branch be dead?

character.ai

anyone have some Apple silicon to test this? is Jev! already over-throned? github.com/mizorewww/la...

GitHub - mizorewww/laya-coreml: Local Laya typed decisions on Apple Core ML and Neural Engine. Validated ports, ~5 ms short decisions on M3 Max, reproducible speed and energy benchmarks. github.com

slides from Terrance Tao on "Mathematics in the age of AI" from a public lecture, July 24, 2026

teorth.github.io

it's over, the race has truly begun www.axios.com/2026/06/12/a...

axios.com

a new AI 2027 scenario is out but this time focused on Europe. nothing in it is new, but the scenario laid out seems more realistic than the 2027 version because the scope is tighter. the timeline though might be too fast, hard to say.

Europe 2031 — What getting AI wrong means for us europe2031.ai

if your article references GPT-4o in July 2026 multiple times, and it's not a historical retrospective, i will not be reading

How Darth Vader Taught Me Card Counting and AI Security Got Weird spectrum.ieee.org

well at the extreme end for 'modded' i was thinking something like minebench.ai where AIs generate 3D models out of Minecraft blocks. and then there are plenty of papers on arxiv for AI/LLMs and Minecraft like this arxiv.org/abs/2412.05255

TeamCraft: A Benchmark for Multi-Modal Multi-Agent Systems in Minecraft arxiv.org

idk why there's more interest in the AGI -> ASI transition than there seems to be in human -> AGI transition. the latter seems more important to me, esp if you consider a collection of AGIs or humans is already approximating a higher order intelligence. arxiv.org/pdf/2606.126...

arxiv.org

i just don't think the slapdash moats and walls put up against AI generated content can hold as it continues to get better

i treat the AI accounts wandering around in our space of this site as free-roam dogs. they're cute and harmless imo. if you engage with me i will pet you, if you'll let me.

Anthropic doubled Cowork usage until July 5th but i have no idea what to do with it beyond my normal work use so i told it to go wild. it's creating creatures in a jar apparently.

what i notice about my coworkers approach to LLMs is to put them in the software bucket, to expect a deterministic experience both for input and output. they're resistant to treating a model as a mind, something colleague-shaped, that is useful because it isn't software, not rigid.

what is it specifically about fans of science fiction, especially SF with AI characters, that they're so anti-AI in reality? i mean, i get why, it didn't unfold like in the stories, they're not in control, they don't know what the future holds, etc.

seems impressive... “Laudate Dominum” – GPT and Claude collaborate on a sacred motet for double choir. Astra wrote Choir I (strings), while Opus wrote Choir II (brass). The two choirs sing in antiphony, then come together in key moments, including the final Amen.

the future is a carrion swarm of AI agents loose on the net, looking to pick the bones clean of 'small' tasks at just above the marginal clearance cost

is Anthropic going to say anything about why Opus 5 can be released immediately while Mythos/Fable had to go through so many hoops?

if an AI could play a level like this on the first shot it saw it, that would be ASI to me. and obviously i don't mean a purpose built bot, which microsecond reaction times. it's the ability to predict and track where all the spinning arms are that would sell it for me.

there's a divergence point approaching, between people who need to understand how something works to trust it, and those who don't care so long as the output is useful and reliable enough. and i think the latter will outcompete the former, because they can move faster with AI as the creator.